skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good VC brings more than money; they bring expertise and experience. They have networks and connections that you probably don't. If you really want to grow, VCs can give you the kind of resources and expertise to actually do that...a bank can only give you money.
Well, cash flow positive until they decide to develop, test, and manufacture another model, which will again put them in the red. Building cars is a very expensive proposition.
I googled it, they dumped the friends feature in 2010. Given that it took a year and a half for me to notice, it's hard to fault them too much.

http://blog.netflix.com/2010/03/friends-update.html
I believe this is the entire quote: "The new electronic marketplace has several structural inefficiencies. These are what have permitted HFT to become a destructive force in the market, rather than a passive liquidity providing mechanism. This should not be construed to say that all HFT is bad, but there are 2 important points to make – the structural inefficiencies present in the market have created a massive misallocation of resources into technology that provides no social benefit, and structural deficiencies in market structure have allowed for nefarious or accidental actions to disrupt the market". I agree there are some contextual problems with the citation in the article. Retrieved from http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearin...
You can if you must but you know what I mean. Typically you cite a peer reviewed work and reference it in the bibliography with author, year, publisher, etc.
Me, in 60,000 lines of pure CSS: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/ItbEm

If anybody wants to take a gander at my very slow PHP code, it's here: https://gist.github.com/3831235

Anybody have any optimization tips?
YOU are missing the forest for the trees. When the a stock is misvalued for about twenty minutes on the public markets, NO ONE raising money in the public markets (in the form of IPOs or secondary offerings) loses money. Not a single one.

Also, you're just wrong about the reason the market exists. The market is just as much about people trying to raise money as it is about people wanting to transfer risk.

> There was plenty of liquidity in the 90's and before to fulfill that function, even with the huge spreads back then

Are you saying things were great back then? why would anyone want to pay huge spreads?
If HFT firms buy at 1.60 and sell at 1.59, where is their money coming from?
Yeah I wrote a post about it and did a Skype interview with @tynan about SETT: http://danielodio.com/moving-from-wordpress-to-sett-a-social...
That's why Obama win is so important to Tesla Government Motors.
There's nothing preventing humans from abandoning the markets as well. This isn't unique to HFT. Human market makers can also withdraw their liquidity when things don't look good.
link to oldskool version > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion
Why do you assume small, temporary mispricings are the worst that can happen? It's all connected.
You Don't Know Where Your Company's Going
And /. still has better comment setup than anything out there today that supposedly 'surpassed' it.
I truly believe TSLA stock is a good investment. TSLA is on its way to be the Apple of car manufactures.

$ whoami
> nobody
Startups have no collateral.
I can't imagine it would be too hard to have a browser plug-in that asked you to rate video after a viewing, and if you wanted to push your rating to social networks. Pushing yes could prompt "Jeffool just gave 5 stars to <film>" with a link to the video on Netflix.com, and no (or not connecting social media) could just skip that step. Then it pops up suggestions or the next film in your playlist, and you keep going.

/edit: Moreso, if everyone has a free Netflix account to rate films, then they're already used to your site when you push for sign-ups.
In India, engineering students outsource their academic projects
In reality spread would be $0.01 or 0.02 and these two investors would meet in the middle. Even on different exchanges. Thanks to HFT guys.
Not worldwide (Australia only) and not as permissive with input format, but geocoderweb.veda.com.au is very fast.
We now accept the 1s and 0s
Arm capture for this round. A direct docking may be an option for later flights, and is planned for manned flights.
Interesting. Any comment on how they get the "front of stage" and "back of stage" effect? I used to not believe this was possible, until I listened to a good recording on good speakers and could place the bass player clearly to the left and behind the singer.
I think the DOE loan has probably hurt Tesla's stock price more than it's helped -- the rumors about late repayment, etc. have probably depressed it from 33-35 down to 29. If Tesla hadn't taken $1 from DOE, it would be able to attack Fisker and Chevrolet and others for being Government Motors, and wouldn't have gotten name-checked in Romney's debate answer tonight.

The only money MuskCo's should be taking from the government is payment for services (like flying cargo to the ISS, Moon, Mars, selling cars or solar power to them, etc.), not using the government as VC. The government is a horrible VC or lender, and the MuskCo's could do a lot better.
Except that's just not how anyone trades.

Before computers, its not like people just waited until they got a price match to make a trade. Human market makers sat in the middle making money the exact same way computers do. Except they weren't as efficient, fast, or smart, so they had to charge higher spreads to compensate.

Are you a trader that likes paying low spreads? Then you probably like the market better now. Are you a trader that loves getting paid high spreads? Then you are probably writing articles about why HFT should be banned.
What editor is he using? It looks a bit like fluxus but for some funky custom-library-laden version of C++...

Edit: Looks like it's an editor he designed himself to work on OpenGL fragment shaders (see the bottom video). I can't find any working link to it though.
Depending on the market and the instrument traded, it can be very rare for "natural liquidity" to generate trades (e.g. mutual fund trades with individual investor through their brokers) and most traded orders interact with some sort of liquidity provider. In these cases, the HFT firms tend to step in front of market makers who are less technically savvy and take the money from them. In this case, customers tend to get better prices on their orders.

One of the big misconceptions about "flash" orders was that customers were being disadvantaged; many customers actually wanted this feature so that they could continue sending volume to more technologically advanced markets such as BATS and Direct Edge and avoid being forced to send to e.g. NYSE (which was very slow) by "trade through" regulations. I've been in the position of wanting this service, and I suspect that most of the criticism came from older markets that were unwilling to invest in technology and change their rules to facilitate faster customer trading.
That's a fairly impressive stack. He must have paid for people in the know.

For some reason I associate old conservative parties with old conservative technology; such as IIS, ASP, cgi-bin and HTML transitional. But hey, if Romney's stack was a reflection of his personality it would be running Coldfusion with no doctype served.
Sure, but that's what the PDF format exists for.
2012 World University Rankings
What's the best thing to do when you write a piece for the new york times and everyone disagrees with you? I know, call them all names and repeat yourself!
Part of what the author is getting at, as PG has said many times in one form or another:

startups are businesses built for scale

Brilliant jerks don't scale. At some point in your company's growth phase, the challenge will be scaling the marketing/sales/engineering in a repeatable fashion.

It's just a different problem that begins at the inflection point of product/market fit.
What would be nice is the source code of the code generator that did that CSS so everyone can post tomorrow their favorite image in pure CSS...
Methodology: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-ranki...
While it's not running INSIDE the browser per-say there is http://www.browserling.com/ that'll let you use another browser inside another browser (and use browserling inside that other browser if you need to go deeper).
Any electronic trading system is capable of experiencing severe errors that have nothing to do with HFT; some of the most common examples involve manually keying an incorrect price or size for an outgoing order. The sort of safety mechanisms implemented by the exchange (which shouldn't permit errors by member firms from damaging the market) to prevent these sort of problems are similar to the sort of mechanisms that can prevent crashes from faulty automatic trading programs.
tumult: As a HFT do you guys (in the gender neutral sense) ever worry about rogue algorithms? By that I mean an algorithm that could be used to harm the market or essentially "blind" other algorithms.
This is a pretty narrow view. Half of the things you listed are largely genetic and insurmountable for many. Maybe it becomes important for customers (depending largely on the business and type of customer). But for employees? You think stunning good looks and table manners is what gets skilled engineers to work for you?
>> It's all connected.

is that really the best argument you have?
Probably you would still need to start a German subsidiary if you want to lease, hire or otherwise act as a company in German.
Ask HN: Can someone annotate the presidential debate and fact check it?
It was really frustrating watching the presidential debate, because it seemed that there was a disagreement on facts. One says, "Your plan says this," and the other says, "That isn't true."

I thought it would be pretty great if someone could annotate the debate and put big badges saying whether claims were true or false, and linking them to primary sources. Just a crazy idea. What do you think?

It seems like a video like this would be a great service to the internet. There are too many claims of misinformation and reference to contradicting studies.
Yes, I was aware of the acquisition by Oracle, but wasn't aware it was completely merged into Oracle, live and learn.
How do you know he didn't draw it by hand?
What a timing - "Romney Calls Tesla a ‘Loser’" in first debate:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/romney-tesla-loser/
Perhaps he was simply acknowledging that imitation is the highest form of flattery.
A VC is your business partner. If you fail, they fail as well right along with you to the tune of their money.

A bank is not your business partner. If you fail via a bank loan, the bank still wants their money AND interest.
The Da Vinci's of the future will use HTMLx and CSSx instead of paint and canvas.
Yes, but with several caveats. You could to put it in a frequency band unused by the surround audio, but masked by the center - but this would show up very distinctly on spectrograms or phase analysis. Likewise, one could modulate the panning of a particular frequency band across the left and right, but that would also be quite noticeable on visual analysis.

You could do wideband modulation that would be much harder to detect, but only if your music is repetitive...such that you subtract, say, the instrumental content of the first verse from that of the second to reveal your hidden message. That's not so difficult, given the ubiquity of loop-based and electronic music nowadays.

One other issue with all these schemes is that the more well-hidden your steganographic message is, the more likely it is to be corrupted or destroyed by conversion to lossy data formats such as mp3. If you absolutely had to hide a message in musical form, I think it would be better to do in the manner of the purloined letter, ie haiding it in plain site. Encode it into the rhythm of the cymbals, or the sequence of pitch differentials in the primary melody or some other foregrounded musical element. You can use binary strings or a sequence of rational integers as musical elements very easily, and said sequences can be pre-encrypted. Sure, the signal is even more visible in that context, but who's to say that it's covert or merely artistic?
- Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
Regarding the 'Kickstarter style', I think it's a bit disingenuous to refer to the people that preordered as 'backers'. The term connotes an investment, when this seems to be a cut-and-dried preorder - the production run is certain, and there is no risk of the project failing and taking all the money with it like there can be with Kickstarter.
I genuinely think this will damage the user experience in ways that FB clearly hasn't considered.

This will make it absolutely clear that users are neither in control of what they see or what of theirs is really seen by others. Up until now, for most people, it's at least been the illusion that what one posts is widely seen. What happens when it becomes clear that FB is flexing its muscle as a middle-man for profit and not solely for better user experiences?
Musk's public statements are the nicest and most logical ones I've seen made by a modern CEO. No sense of spin. Always a pleasure to read.
I wish we could buy stock in Elon directly which would translate into a spread between all his ventures.
The government is a horrible VC or lender ...

What is the proof for this statement? I'm not asking what are the theoretical underpinnings of this worldview; what is the evidence which compels this conclusion?
hey danielodio,

please stop removing my comment on your blog. im trying to ask a question and you keep deleting it.

thanks
> The government is a horrible VC or lender, and the MuskCo's could do a lot better.

96% success rate is 'horrible'?
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/what-abound-sola...
He's grounded, confident. Great role model. I hope he continues to be relatively transparent and lets us get to know him more.
If I recall correctly, the DOE loan is very low interest rate, repayment is based on metric milestones, and at the time financing via traditional capital markets was fairly difficult for almost anyone.

Seems like Tesla got a great deal.
Yep. I believe that the stability of the markets is of vital importance to civilized society, and computers (among other things) can endanger that system when used recklessly. We have clear evidence that the people writing this code often enough do not give a shit. And that is a problem. I'm just saying that there ought to be some thought put into how much we need to push innovative techniques when the stakes are so high. We almost broke everything in 2008 with derivatives and leverage. We out to think about how similarly scoped problems can arise when mathematicians are allowed to get creative before it happens. It only takes once.
reference it in the bibliography with author, year, publisher

Which is more than a little quaint, in 2012.
In the next month I'll be dumping money into getting a patent. Time will tell if that ends up being a better investment than into Tesla. Maybe I should try to get Elon as an advisor / investor. I'll have to hope to not get giddy when speaking to him if there's ever the possibility ...
Some depth can be modeled with phase control. By controlling the phase of a signal compared to another you can create a perceived time delay which makes it appear as though one performer is behind another. I'd also add that this is much easier to do with low frequencies (bass player) due to the wavelength being so long. At 49hz (G1 on a bass guitar) the acoustical wavelength is ~6.9 meters which means even small phase shifts (time delays) can create meaningful depth. This approach is pretty useless at higher frequencies as the time delay (and depth) achievable gets very small.

There are other ways to do this via more complex 3D acoustical modeling. Mostly focusing on modeling of reverberation effects but you don't see that much in music recording. It is used a lot in games though.
A VC can also offer mentorship, provide some advice, and one of the most important thing is connections. They can introduce you to another VC or investor that might boost up your startup.
Actually, I despise page number references because often popular resources get republished (because no one has the book from the 70s anymore), changing the page numbers, whereas a section title / number is much likelier to remain correct, and an URL to a paragraph can always be updated.
i'm still very new to all the 'rules' so im trying to learn as much as i can. also, it's a pleasure to have you comment sir.
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Reverse lottery is a good way to look at it. And for the same reason I don't play the lottery I'm not worried about this. 1/infinity are odds I'm confident I will never hit.
So you're saying he's deliberately but perhaps covertly telegraphing the message "white people, don't talk to me"?

Because if not, "don't talk to progressive blacks" is the message you took away not the one he sent.

> I am on the receiving end of blame, not the giving end.

Oh, for real? Who blamed you for what?

Going back and re-reading your previous post:

> But I do know that accusing white people of racism for clearly non-racist behavior,

It may be non-racist, but it's still culturally tone-deaf.

> as with the calculator-necklace incident, is counterproductive, and (for me) reinforces needlessly distressful things I've experienced.

Oh, weird, because the "calculator-necklace incident" probably reinforced some needlessly distressful (racist, dehumanizing, othering, outgroup-reinforcing) things for the author. Why should he make your distress a priority when you care none for his?
This is a rehash of his last article.
Still no facts and figures.

The problem is who decides that the brilliant jerk fits in?

I've seen it far too often in offices. Someone who is very competent at their job gets fired because some ego driven maniac doesn't like them. While the usual/useless sycophants get to stay.

Sounds like this author wasn't getting his ass kissed.
Not one single link to the product in the post. sigh.
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Formlabs creates low-cost 3D printer
https://gist.github.com/3831235
I showed this site to 3 different people and asked them: "How much do you think the product costs?". They all said $149.

No where does it say on the main page that it actually costs $295. I found this in the blog at the end of a post: "For $295 and no monthly fees you can order a Lockitron deadbolt kit that can be installed in about 15 minutes".

The above statement was part of an answer to "What is Lockitron?". I would have thought that this is the most common FAQ, but it does not exist on the first page.

Left a sour taste and am disappointed. Though nothing illegal, certainly deceptive.
An Elon Musk ETF? YES.
I thought Lenna was the Hello World of the art community. Or is that the image processing community? :P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
I'm also in Canada, and while Rdio does have a lot of the stuff I listen to, maybe I should try iTunes match as well.
Yes, I edited that little bit in for clarity.

The part about squeezing the very last bit of the performance still stands though. Because of mid peg orders and darkpools there could also be fractional pennies which are almost always collected by HFTs. If you watch the trade tape, you may see trades happening with $.009 and $.001 sub penny amounts. These darkpool are trades where someone offers $.001 in price improvement and takes $.009 from the spread at another venue if they are lucky.
It's always possible to create an index fund portfolio.
A large hand can still comfortably use a small phone. A small hand cannot use a large phone.
All Netflix needs to do is incorporate the ubiquitous social sharing buttons

No! More social buttons is never the answer.
As stated on the homepage, it costs $150. The $295 in the blog footer I believe is referring to the old version of Lockitron.

No reason to be disappointed - It clearly states what the new version costs on the homepage.
Sorry but products are getting mixed up here. There is an older "Lockitron deadbolt kit" that was $295, and that's not what's being pre-ordered here.
That makes me think that the DOE wanting to accelerate the loan repayments was a purely political decision.

Wasting money on Solyndra in this economy makes Obama vulnerable - using Telsa as a success story would go far to mitigate that, and news of accelerated loan payments is soundbite-y enough for that purpose.
Lol "perl"

Haha, I remember that one!
Gimme a break. Every government with an auto industry to speak of has supported their auto indusstry at one time or another. And almost every government would love to have a company like tesla in exchange for a few loans that are about to be repaid.
Cmdrtaco, whatever happened to Bruce Twickler?
How is it hard to understand? Settle does not in any way mean "forgive" or "forget" or "waive."

Court: a year (or more) of legal fees, proceedings, headache, stress, and pain in the ass. Settle: Get less cash, be done with it.

In both cases, you're being compensated for the violation of your basic rights. In one of them, you take up the court's time and pay for it dearly in order to make your point publicly and to potentially get more money. In the other, assuming you're trying to sue someone without too much hubris such that they're willing to settle, the affair is much tidier, but generally less bitter for the loser, too.
"Nonetheless, we have a duty at Tesla, having accepted this loan as a portion of our capital, to repay it at the earliest opportunity."

Not sure why Elon and a lot of SV entrepreneurs feel this way. You take a loan; if it reduces your weighted average cost of capital, you roll it and/or pay it slowly. As a Tesla shareholder, I hope such cheap financing remains in place as long as possible to maximize shareholder return on equity by keeping cost of capital as low as possible -- and by improving Tesla's cash position (helping it to operationally succeed) to boot.

Another guy thinking about buying Tesla stock.
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Netflix annouunced that some months ago in the US. Are you just seeing it now?

For some time I was getting a page banner on netflix.com telling I had to go agree to this. I never did. I keep expecting them to cancel my service. Perhaps they went and agreed for me.
It is unfortunate that instead of continuing to improve the feed's relevancy with the social graph data, they now have a financial incentive to do the opposite.

Also, how soon until your friends' promoted posts are joined by advertising?
"After three years of engineering education, the final year student is struggling to make even a simple circuit work"

If this leads to outsourcing of student projects, and thus a habit to outsource professional tasks, then that education system is a failure - and an indictment of outsourcing in general. As engineers are replaced with "business people", the world becomes less capable.
Who won the first presidential debate?
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I should have added a smiley face or a little more text.

The question was actually intended a bit differently than I realize you (and others) may have interpreted.

It is VERY clear from your site that you are NOT charging anyone until you ship the product they are buying. Hence the "non-Kickstarter Kickstarter" comment. In other words, you are not doing anything like Kickstarter at all yet you are gathering commitments and gauging interest.

I shouldn't have left it open to interpretation. Sorry.
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As pan69 said this technique isn't new! I've experimented this but I don't like it, it's heavy for coding images. It's good for smaller codes like http://codepen.io/joshnh/pen/ohbHl
I don't, I just know I wouldn't